THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 357 



Description. — Trunk solitary, slender, naked, 15-20 feet high, 

 8 inches in diameter. Leaves 10 feet long; leaflets 1^ foot lone*, 

 bifarions, not fascicled, flaccid, bright green ; petiole compressed. 

 Spadices elongated, much compressed ; female spadix 3-4 feet 

 long, peduncled, with a few fascicled spikes on the acnte margins 

 near the apex ; spathe 1 foot long. Fruit oblong, f inch long, 

 shining, yellow. Seed i-f inch long. This species can easily 

 be distinguished by the numerous bright green decurved leaflets 

 being all in one plane. This is the handsomest species in the 

 genus. 



Habitat. — Sikkim Himalaya, from 400-1,400 feet; Assam; 

 Mishmi Hills. Generally growing on rocks. 



Uses. — The interior of the stem is, according to Gamble, often 

 eaten by the Lepchas. 



Illustration. — Plate V. The Photograph, supplied by Mr. 

 Macmillan, shows a young specimen of Phoenix rupicola. The very 

 short stem appears to be bulb-like on account of the rather long 

 remains of the petioles covering up the real stem. The wide 

 spreading, arching leaves with the narrow leaflets situated in one 

 plane distinguish this species at once. Some beautiful examples 

 of these Palms may be seen growing in the open in the Sibpur 

 Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, and also at Gwalior, C. L, Agra and 

 many other places in India, where they bear seed freely. 



PHCENIX ACAULIS, Buch. ex Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 783 ; Hort.Beng. 73 ; 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XV. 87 ; Kunth Enum. III. 257 ; Griff, in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 345 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 137, var. melonocarpa 



II. cc. 346, 138, t. 228 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 274 321 ; Dalz. and 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 278 ; Brandis For. Fl. 555 ; Ind. Trees 645 ; Becc. Males. 



III. 348, 397, t. 44, IV f . 51-57 ; Wall. Cat. 8602 C ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. Pres. 

 II. 802. 



Names. — Dwarf Date Palm ; Khajuri, Pind Khajur, Jangly 

 Khajur, (Hind.) ; Schap, (Lepcha) • Ohindi, Hindi, Jhari, Sindi, 

 {Gond.) ; Juno, (Kwrku) ; Pind Khajur {Panj.) ; Boichind {Mar.) ; 

 Yita, {Tel.) ; Thin-boung (Burm.). 



Description. — An almost stemless palm; stem bulbiferous, 0-10 

 inches in diameter ; densety clothed with the sheaths and bases of 

 the petioles, the ends of which are often bristly with the protrud- 



